Trump Trumped

As if to let Donald Trump know he can run but he can't hide, Jack Smith has expanded his indictment of the former White House occupant to include charges of trying to obstruct justice destroy evidence when he, ironically produced evidence that Trump ordered Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira to erase video security-camera recordings showing classified documents being moved around the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.  The evidence presented involved de Oliveira telling fellow Trump employee, IT staffer Yuscil Taveras, that "the boss" wanted the recordings deleted, but Taveras could not and would not do so.  De Oliveira was arraigned yesterday for his role in the cover-up; Taveras is cooperating fully with Jack Smith's office. 

Oh, and another witness said that the documents Trump was boasting about having in his possession in an audio recording was indeed war plans for Iran.

This is actually bad news for anyone that wants to see Trump go to jail, because this may force Smith to have the documents trial - now scheduled for Monday, May 20, 2024 - delayed because of the extra charges and witnesses this new evidence entails.  A delay of the trial will push the start of it into the fall general election campaign, when Trump, barring a major disaster, will be the Republican presidential nominees once again.  And we know that major disasters that derail once-inevitable presidential nominees only happen to Democrats (*cough cough*, Gary Hart, *cough cough*).  As for the inevitable Democratic nominee, Democrats are hoping that Joe Biden can overcome his sagging poll numbers, though not even an improved economy seems to be working for him.  And something that would take Biden out of contention for the Presidency would certainly be a disaster by providing yet another disaster (*cough cough*, Kamala Harris, *cough cough*)  The only way for the Democrats to stave off another Trump victory at this point to keep him from regaining the Presidency and replacing investigations of him with investigations of all of his opponents would be to nominate someone else with no connection to the Biden administration for the White House (*cough cough,* Martin O'Malley, *cough cough*), but we all know that's not going to happen.

However, there is a silver lining.  With the start of the Trump hush-money trial in New York City planned for two months before the coducmetns trail, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney and the prosecutor of the hush-money case, has hinted that he might delay his own Trump trial sdo Smith can get an earlier start.  We'd better hope for either that or for people to realize that President Biden has actually done a lot of good in the past quarter decade and give him another presidential term, because if Trump gets back in, the cases against him won't be the only things he makes disappear.

Remember what happened in Argentina in the seventies and early eighties?    

Note that I didn't cough that time.

And how is House Speaker Kevin McCarthy handling this?  He apparently wants to impeach Presdient Biden for . . . something.